James 5:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

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  • Matt 6:19-20 : 19 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 And he, like a decaying thing, consumes, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
  • Isa 50:9 : 9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they all shall wear out like a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
  • Isa 51:8 : 8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool: but my righteousness will last forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
  • Hos 5:12 : 12 Therefore I will be to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
  • Luke 12:33 : 33 Sell what you have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags that do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches, nor moth destroys.
  • Jas 2:2 : 2 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your assembly, and there also comes in a poor man in filthy clothes,
  • 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 To an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, which does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When you correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, you make his beauty to fade like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

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  • Jas 5:3-5
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    3Your gold and silver are corroded; and their corrosion shall be a witness against you, and shall consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure for the last days.

    4Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

    5You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been indulgent; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

  • Jas 5:1
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    1Come now, you rich men, weep and wail for your miseries that shall come upon you.

  • Matt 6:19-20
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    19Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,

    20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

  • Luke 12:33
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    33Sell what you have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags that do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches, nor moth destroys.

  • Job 13:28
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    28And he, like a decaying thing, consumes, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

  • Rev 3:17-18
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    17Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

    18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear; and anoint your eyes with eyesalve, that you may see.

  • Prov 5:11
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    11And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

  • Jas 2:6
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    6But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and haul you into the courts?

  • Luke 6:24
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    24But woe to you that are rich! for you have received your consolation.

  • Eccl 5:13-14
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    72%

    13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners to their hurt.

    14But those riches perish through misfortune, and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

  • Jas 2:2-3
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    2For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your assembly, and there also comes in a poor man in filthy clothes,

    3and you pay attention to the one wearing fine clothes and say to him, Sit here in a good place, and say to the poor, Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10But the rich in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.

    11For the sun rises with a burning heat, and it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • Rev 18:14-17
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    14And the fruits that your soul longed for have departed from you, and all things which were luxurious and splendid have departed from you, and you shall find them no more at all.

    15The merchants of these things, who became rich by her, shall stand far off for fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,

    16And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

    17For in one hour such great riches came to nothing. And every captain, and all who travel by ship, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood far off,

  • Isa 1:22
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    22Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water:

  • Prov 10:15
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    15The rich man's wealth is his strong city, the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

  • Amos 5:11-12
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    11Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

    12For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

  • 2 Pet 2:3
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    3And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.

  • Ezek 7:19
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    19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy their souls, nor fill their stomachs, because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity.

  • Job 22:5-6
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    5Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquities infinite?

    6For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Prov 6:11
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    11So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

  • Hag 1:6
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    6You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but are not filled; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.

  • Prov 24:34
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    34So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

  • Luke 12:21
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    21So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

  • Nah 3:16
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    16You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven: the locust spoils, and flies away.

  • Prov 11:4
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    4Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

  • Prov 23:5
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    5Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

  • Job 27:18
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    18He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a keeper makes.

  • Prov 13:7
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    7There is one who makes himself rich, yet has nothing; there is one who makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

  • Joel 3:5
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    5Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my precious pleasant things.

  • 1 Tim 6:17
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    17Charge those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;

  • Joel 1:17
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    17The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

  • Prov 28:22
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    22He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.

  • Job 7:5
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    5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and becomes loathsome.

  • Job 4:19
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    19How much less in those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?

  • Prov 1:19
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    19So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its owners.

  • Jas 4:13
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    13Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit;

  • Luke 5:36
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    36And he spoke also a parable to them: No one puts a piece of a new garment on an old one; otherwise, the new makes a tear, and the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old.